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man-scape

man-scape is the alternative form of manscape.

Meaning of manscape

Noun

manscape (plural manscapes)

  1. A view of a group of people.
    • I soon turned to contemplate the more animated manscape at my feet. Seeing a crowd of beggars standing together in dejected attitudes, I cast a handful of cash into the air, in such wise that the coins would fall plump among them, and then dropped behind the parapet of the pagoda.1859, Bayard Taylor, A Visit to India, China and Japan in the Year 1853
  2. A landscape that has been shaped by the human race.
    • At last the manscape gags itself, and a queer, worn, torn, cracked, corncrake voice begins to vibrate in the vast bowl.1905, T. P.'s Weekly - Volume 5, page 364
  3. An image, normally artistic, of the male form.
    • Pierrot is lying in an open loll on bedface, twitching me with bigtoe ... immense beckoner as my captive eye swallows it whole and am unawares into his manscape still at ten feet distance yet touched in a way that nobody has even touched me in my own community d'Angluche.1998, Scott Symons, Christopher Elson, Dear Reader: Selected Scott Symons, page 103

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Forms of man-scape

Noun
pluralman-scapes
Verb
third-person singular presentman-scapes
present participleman-scaping
past participleman-scaped
pastman-scaped

Questions about man-scape

What is man-scape the alternative form of?
Man-scape is the alternative form of manscape.

Words near man-scape in the dictionary

  1. man-rated
  2. man-rates
  3. man-rating
  4. man-rope
  5. man-ropes
  6. man-scape
  7. man-scaped
  8. man-scaper
  9. man-scapers
  10. man-scapes
  11. man-scaping

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